What is life? The second one is born, the second they start to die. We replace our body with a full new set of cells every seven to ten years. Is the ability to keep breathing really this important? We jump, everyday. We struggle, everyday. We open UNITY3D, we close UNITY3D, everyday. When itch.io is closed and all the servers are down, when the whole internet is burried underground, along with our civilization, when all the WD-blue internal solid state drives are rotten and well passed the 2-year Acidental Geek Squad Replacement plan...... Does anything we do now really matter? Is sacrificing our life, is itself, a way of living? When sometimes we just can't do it, it's okay, cause after all we are just human. But even when we jump and jump and struggle and struggle, we get back to the water, the day of our lives continues, will we live happily thereafter? By then, do we have the will to Press R to Restart? Do we even want to? At the end of the day, all we can grasp from the thin air we breathe, the only truth that we can deperately hold onto so we can at least sleep undisturbed in the face of the vicissitudes of life, is that: there will always be another day. Another fish. On another beach, jumping and struggling. Its day may continue, or end. And we may press R to restart, or not.
Seriously tho, the game is so great, the sound of the wave also makes the theme stronger. Apart from a little thing that the text can be more clear, what if the fish is eaten once it gets back to water? Or more achievable, the tide falls back? I guess that would hit really hard on the player :>